Tahrcountry Musings

Spain’s environment ministry has issued warning about the outbreak of Morbilli virus threatening dolphins and has sought the help of expert...

My UK contacts inform me that Environment Minister Mike Russell has promised tough crackdown on wildlife offenders. Bird poisoning is troubl...

Chinese scientists had recently declared that Yangtze River dolphin( Lipotes vexillifer ) or baiji was probably extinct. But baiji has been ...

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) has released its first Environmental Indicators report entitled “Our green accountability” to show its o...

Here is a message from Leonardo DiCaprio. Have alook at it. Spread it around I'm writing to tell you about my new environmental film, Th...

The new Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) of UK has included Hedgehogs, House Sparrows and starlings in the list of 1,149 species in need of co...

Manatees ( Trichechus inungis ) of Amazon, which plays a vital role in the river ecosystem, are declining at an alarming rate. Habitat loss,...

Argentina will create a new National Park along the Patagonia coast to safeguard more than half a million penguins and other rare seabirds l...

Natural birth of birth of Pandas in zoos is a rare occurrence. The standard practice in zoo is artificial insemination. Viennaa’s Tiergarten...

600 elephant dung samples collected from Cambodia will be sent to Australia to determine the actual numbers of elephants. They will be analy...

Peace Parks, a new book from the IUCN stable, with a foreword by the World Conservation Union’s Director General, Julia Marton-Lefèvre, expl...

White-Tailed Eagle ( Haliaeetus albicilla ) which disappeared from Ireland about 100 years ago has made a comeback. On 16 th August Mr. Jo...

A WWF initiated campaign is on, to educate and prevent British holidaymakers from bringing back illegal wildlife Trade Items. Last year, Bri...

The latest research on Spotted Hyenas by Dr. Oliver Honer from the Liebniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research in Berlin has come up wit...

The documentary "The 11th Hour” from DiCaprio is set for release on August 17th.It is a compilation of interviews with leading scientis...

IUCN The World Conservation Union and UNESCO are sending a mission to investigate shooting of four critically endangered Mountain Gorillas ...

My French contacts inform me that the female bear, named Franska, one of a group of brown bears released in the mountain ranges between Fra...

Asia's largest project for the satellite tracking of elephants initiated by WWF has come up with disturbing news about pygmy elephants. ...

My friends in Laos inform me that recently the Large-antlered Muntjac has been photographed for the first time using camera traps set in Nak...

Hungarian scientists have discovered a group of fossilized swamp cypress trees estimated to be 8 million years old, in the Northeastern vill...